I have just started to scan my color, B&W, Negs and Chromes. I have a Nikon 5000 cool scan and Epson 4490 for Medium format. Now I have to scan 1000's about 35 years worth of stuff, I hope it works for the retirement plan.

I am using a Nikon Super Coolscan LS4000 that I bought on e-Bay to scan my 35mm slides and film. It works just fine for me. I am using a Nikon D200 most of the time lately but I enjoy working with slides or negatives from time to time.

Although my Konica-Minolta Dimage Scan Dual IV is no longer manufactured, it does an excellent job of scanning 35mm negs & slides. The biggest problem is that, even after extensive cleaning of the film to remove dust & fingerprints, the scanner picks every minute speck and scratch. It seems like every picture needs extensive photo restoration to clean up all the imperfections on the film picked up by the scanner. Thank God for Photoshop and the healing brush.

I have the Konica Minolta Dimage Scan Elite 5400II scanner. I scan slides and negatives as high resolution files (jpeg or tiff). I keep them on a separate hard disk until I am ready to print them. I use Photoshop to edit or touch them up. Then I print with the Epson 2400 ink jet printer.